AudioSurf

AudioSurf makes your own music the course for a color-matching puzzle race, so the value depends on whether you want to replay tracks as score challenges. At ≈ $9.94 from Kinguin, weigh that personal use against the Steam PC price before buying.

The Steam PC version supports full controller use and English interface text, and includes The Orange Box soundtrack. Player feedback stands at 95%% positive across 8,908 reviews; those figures can help frame the purchase alongside your interest in its music-based format. Compared with Steam at $9.99, this offer saves ≈ $0.05 on the same base game.

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95%Steam Reviews8.9K reviews85Metacritic/100

Released: Feb 15, 2008

Music · Rhythm · Indie · Casual · Music-Based Procedural Generation

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Historical Low~ $2.492023-11Current Low Across Stores~ $9.99Steamvs. Historical Low+301%

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01About AudioSurf

Choose a song from your own collection and AudioSurf turns its changing shape, speed, and mood into a puzzle-racing course. Gather blocks of matching colors as you ride, then compare your score on that song’s online leaderboard. Steam PC supports MP3, iTunes M4A, WMA, CD, and OGG music. The Steam PC version includes The Orange Box soundtrack and 14 characters. Steam player reviews: 95%% positive from 8,908 reviews. Steam PC interface language: English.

Credits

Composer

Pedro Macedo Camacho

Developer

Dylan Fitterer

Steam player reviews

95%positiveOverwhelmingly Positive8,908 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$2.492023-11-21 · SteamBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
English	Yes	—	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19

02Before you buy

Music and soundtrack

Bring music in MP3, iTunes M4A, WMA, CD, or OGG format. The Steam PC version also includes The Orange Box soundtrack.

Controls and language

Steam PC lists full controller support and English interface support.

03Frequently asked questions

How does a song affect a run?

The chosen song determines the course’s shape, speed, and mood.

What is the scoring goal?

Earn points by grouping blocks of the same color on the course.

Can I compare scores?

Yes. The game has online scoreboards for each song you play.

How many characters are available?

You can choose from 14 characters, each offering a strategy choice.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

11/25/2013

Great game for anyone who likes puzzle games and/or music, and if you like competition there is even global scoreboards for every song and you can compete for the high score! Different difficultys for all skill levels and over a dozen different modes to choose from.Show moreShow less

1,356.2 hours at review416 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

09/23/2011

this game is very close to being fun or interestingShow moreShow less

0.6 hours at review63 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

12/19/2013

ears are required.Show moreShow less

11.1 hours at review324 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

11/16/2015

I've had a review for Audiosurf sitting around listed as "Friends Only" for the longest time now, recommending the game. However, I have to come back and amend this one. Don't buy Audiosurf. This is an extremely controversial opinion to myself. I want to like Audiosurf. Really badly. I love Rhythm and Music games, and I love originality and creativity. That's why it pains me to say I don't reccommend it. The game itself is fine. Play a few rounds of the demo and you might find yourself having fun with it. It's legitimately a pretty fun game by all standards. That's where it ends though. It's just "pretty fun". The biggest problem I can see is the prevalence of the Mono game mode across YouTube playthoughs and leaderboard scores. Mono is such a bog-standard game mode that it's just enough fun to play as a time killer. It's like Rockband on No Fail mode where half the notes have been removed. It's just not challenging, but worst of all, it's the most fun. The main game modes of Audiosurf are based around the three-of-a-kind matching block game on the track, where you have to connect 3 or more notes of similar color. It feels weird and unnatural to miss notes in a rhythm and music game. Trying to make up great combinations of 3-of-a-kinds while gauging how much of the song is left takes up your concentration. You're barely paying attention to the song in the background because what you're performing in-game is practically tangentially related to what's happening in the song. Theen there's the so-touted "ride your music". The fact that you're able to load up any song you want and get a perfectly personalized track based on what kind of song you've loaded in. The music analyzation algorithm is pretty great. When you play on Freeride, you can pretty much feel with the flow of the track where the computer got each part from. It's like a procedurally generated music video. Hell, it reminds me of the fondness of the Demoscene. It looks great. Too bad the engine chugs like it's got a drinking problem. This is where any familiarity with the song ends though. In broad strokes, the algorithm is great. However, the actual note selection process for the gameplay portion of the game falls flat. A swift group of reds perfectly on the beat could be suddenly miscalculated to one note being offbeat. It's jarring, and again, gives that feel that what you're doing and what's happening are two completely seperate entities. Audiosurf is basically making a puzzle game based on your music. You don't ride anything. That's where the real realization comes in. Watching Audiosurf is fun. Playing Audiosurf is fun. But when you're not playing Audiosurf, you realize that you pretty much just killed time instead of really playing any sort of game. Despite this review, I'll probably keep playing Audiosurf. Hell, its sequel looks like it's changed up the formula enough to be a nice fresh twist. That's why it's on my wishlist. However, as it stands, Audiosurf isn't really a good game. It's a fun diversion, but it really isn't worth it. My reccomendation? See if you can pick up Frequency or Amplitude for PS2. There's no "riding your music", but it's got a similar style and is a hell of a lot more fun. --------------- This isn't entirely related to the review, but I don't know how rife the Leaderboards are with score spoofing. It's based on the IDv3 tags in the song, and if that fails it's based on the filename, but if you have a filename that's slightly different to the one that's already been created, you get a completely blank leaderboard for yourself. I don't know what's stopping someone from loading up a KitCaliber song and editing their tags to top the charts on a short, slow song: say With You Friends by Skrillex (kinda bad example but you get it).Show moreShow less

24.6 hours at review45 people found this helpful

Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.